Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-07-07
PARIS AND BRUSSELS.
KING LEOPOLD TALKS BY TELE-
PHONE WITH PRESIDENT GREW.
A Meeting of Ralers which Caused No
Anxiety in the Diplomatic WorId-An
Extraordinary Impulse Given to Gam
biing-IournalisticE Enterprise.

ANXIETY In the Diplomatic World-An
Extraor,,i,.,v .,,, .,;. .,
s''' f"'e'Pris"'
On Feb. :; Of the present year a dat. to h,
remembered hy historians tb,. teleplon. WAS
ready to work experimsltaIly b.t,,..u the.
Belgian and French capitals and King Leo
pold determined upon nav ing recour,.. 10 il 10
interview President Grew, He ra,u-st.,i
the latter to have his ears omen Mt the. EIysre
at 3 p. M, while his majesty himself wouId
20 to the Brussels stock e,cban,. which is
the terminus of the in,srnational ,.l.phops
on the Belgian side The ap,ointm.nt WAS
kept, and the advantage of tn. t.l.pbonic
union immediately became obvious. I'm TIN.
first place, the meeting between the two
heads of state took plac. without ANY Of tb.
fastidious pageantry which surb occasions
impose upon unfortunate rulers when they
meet face Ia fac. King I.,,,,iJ I;,,,..,,..JI,
with all kinds of retinue and stat. carriages
TO go and confer with the French presi,l.nt
indeed, ne spoke in the undress uniform IN.
had been wearing at home all tb. r,orpi,,
and As to NJ. Grevy. be is said To hav. been
clad in his dressing gown .nJ sii,r.,,.
his talk with the king of lin. gaIg;,,s .,d
sovereign Of the Congo free. STINT. Ras;J..s
/ there WAS none ,f The. IIsIIal n.,Iifi..l
about the business. The iut.ryi.v b.vino
| been arranged only a few minutes l.fora
hand, there had he. n no tir,e for io,,nali.ts
to horrify Europe hy spec, Ia,ions shon, d.,
threatening alliance or the tarrit,. va
| which would result from tb. ,.t. , ,,,,.. and
| the emperor. of Russia. Austria and O.
many must have imnadiat.Iv ,uJsr.t,,,
how convenient it would b. if thsy conIJ
:
ner, instead of d aging all E,,rora,s
thoughts and fears nth them to Krsus;er
or Skiernewicke Furthermore the c,rysr
sation having gone on in . TOM sn,,,o;a',i,,
loud to he overheard, any slight sn,i.,v ,ha
meeting NAV have causad ,o the d;nIor,a,io
world was allayei within an bour vhan !,
became known that there had b,..n mo- jarr
schemng Of king and president and in foe,
nothing more than such innocent talk ss the
following:
"How is the weather ON vour S;j.y- up.;
ing "Oh, the suns on, here .Wbst .
fine thing the telephone isrn aC.rtainIv.
hear your majesty perfectly well y And
catch the sound OF a fiy buzzin, around yo,r
eIcellency's ears"
The beginning which the Paris Rr,Sc.,s ,.,.
phone made, when it WAS or..n..i IN ,b, r,,,I;,,
twenty three days later. ca,,s.,i many s,,,..,.
stitiouS folks Ia turn ps;e For s,rsng,. ~
say, the first communication which rho .,ira.
conveyed was the new. of a ,.rribl. calamity.
the earthquake in the south of Frsnca .nJ
the Riviera, by which sp many ,b,psar1. ~
houses were wrecked and So many bundr..ds
of lives lost However, outsiders only Inolsd
upon the circumstanc. AS om,,nns Th..
greater number Of p.ople usip., tb. ,,,.,,,, |
tional telephone so far. are s,o.rlh,ol.,s .,,
journalists, set of practical persons wbns.
minds are generally pretty free tr,,, s,,.,.
stition, and who are too busy To ba given IN
disagreeable broodinys. So the tal.nbo,s b.s
escaped the fat. OF thcs., MESSENGERS VIII
wien they bore evil news TO the eastern
potentates, had their unlucky heads cbour..I
off for the trouble they gave Far frn,,
suffering any punishment. tn. Franco. R.Io,i.n
telephone is increasing its FAMILIARITY eyer
day, in Belgium at least
One of its first effects has ba., IN ,r,,.,
extraordinary impuIs.. IN y,mbI;,, o,, g.
stock exchange OF course, our ouo,s,iops
have at all times been swayed To "A pr.st ~,
tent by the prices of the Paris bourSa Nou,
that the telephone records tn. auctp.,io, 81
the French funds every minnie Won, MAJ, |
conceive the adyantap. which all s,o,i |
brokers and bankers ayailing tb.mS.,v.s .,
this meaIrs of communication. ar, ahI. =,
secure in their dealings, Ii is inst ,S ,bn,ab
a certain number OF betting mem in ~,
York were kept posted every half Sac,na a.. |
10 the movements of the comu-.titor,s for ,ba
EPSON Derby while the Derby was bs;ny
run Brussels gamblers now follow tbs onn
taton race on the Paris boursa ward NOR ward
inch per inch One after another coma and L,
closet themselves in the tiny iDclosur. ,xbar.
the telephone apparatus is s.chld.d with,
" added walls, between which the s,,nd snJ
the person catching il are e,uaIlv s,ia.d ~,
.he whole of the cabin including tn. st,nl to
ut upon, and the desk to lean and writ. un,n |
covers less than square yard Of snacs In
lew minutes purple, perspiring faces and
nasty feet emerge from the closet. the owners
If said faces and feet holding at their Dsncil,
nd bit of vet unpublished news which NAV
mean thousands of dollars won or los, within |
he next minute or two.
On u Journalistic enterpris. this intsrps
ional telephone exercises u-.rhaus "a yrss,ar L.
still In order TO yrasp tin, fac,s
We must first bear in mind that competition :
4 all kinds, financial, commercial or literary
invariably much keener in small places | r
han in large ones. In his description of nm | n
lection day at Eatanswill, Charles Dickens p
bows that political feeling ran very mucb |
igLer in that nutshell of a town than in buos 1
sondon So it may be said that tb. race for a
money, for success, for news. is very mucb |
weller in Brussels than in London or Paris
he promptness with which the Belgian csni |
Al awaited itself of the inland telepbone il a
ase in point At the present hour the nun.
er of persons using the telepbon. in Paris is >
bove 5000; it is the same in London and u
800 in Brussels. OF course tbes. fipuras u
in sppear ri,Iiculouslv small i, sn,,, - p